Lead Apparel Designer
MrBeast
full-time
Posted on:
Location Type: Remote
Location: Remote • North Carolina • 🇺🇸 United States
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Senior
About the role
- Own the creative vision for graphics across all apparel categories — from core basics to limited-edition drops and collaboration capsules.
- Lead concept development for seasonal stories, special collections, and culturally relevant campaigns that resonate with youth and young adult audiences.
- Build a team of contract designers, providing feedback, mentorship, and creative direction to maintain design excellence and consistency.
- Trend Integration: Translate trend insights, cultural references, and youth-driven aesthetics into elevated, commercially viable designs.
- Concept to Completion: Support the full design lifecycle from moodboarding and concept sketching to tech pack handoff and production-ready files.
- Collaboration: Work cross-functionally with product developers, brand managers, and licensing teams to ensure alignment on seasonal design strategies and timelines.
- Product Mockups: Develop clear mockups and CADs for design presentations and approvals.
- Brand Voice: Ensure all graphic outputs align with brand identity and tone, with special attention to the youth market (ages 6–18).
- Innovation: Contribute ideas to improve print techniques, material pairings, and embellishments that elevate the overall product experience.
Requirements
- 7+ years of experience designing graphics for apparel brands, ideally with a focus on youth, streetwear, or entertainment/creator-driven merchandise.
- Strong understanding of fabric treatments, print applications, and garment construction.
- Proficient in Adobe Creative Suite (Photoshop, Illustrator a must); experience with Procreate, CLO 3D or other sketch/modeling tools a plus.
- Demonstrated ability to forecast and respond to fashion, pop culture, and content trends relevant to Gen Z and Gen Alpha.
- Proven portfolio showcasing innovative, fun, and relevant graphic work on physical garments.
- Detail-oriented, able to work autonomously, and comfortable managing multiple projects in a fast-paced, deadline-driven environment.
- Experience collaborating in distributed teams and across time zones.
Benefits
- Competitive Salary
- Generous Medical (Blue Cross Blue Shield), Dental, Vision and company-paid Life Insurance
- Company contributions to employee Health Savings Accounts (HSA)
- 401k Plan with Safe Harbor company-matching
- Flexible vacation policy and paid company holidays
- Company-provided technology package
- Relocation when applicable for those coming in from outside the Greenville, NC area including travel and company-provided housing for the first 90 days
Applicant Tracking System Keywords
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Hard skills
graphic designapparel designtrend forecastingfabric treatmentsprint applicationsgarment constructionmoodboardingconcept sketchingtech pack developmentproduct mockups
Soft skills
leadershipmentorshipcollaborationdetail-orientedautonomous workproject managementcreative directioninnovationcommunicationfeedback